"Israel" (Siouxsie and the Banshees cover)

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As half of MS MR, Lizzy Plapinger makes music that, at its heights, already careened sharply toward Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Siouxsie's made appearances on the group's Tumblr-doubling-as-outright-inspiration-board, so some dreams were probably realized when Plapinger joined fellow New Yorkers Mr. Dream for a Siouxsie covers stint. The idea, conceived for a Halloween covers show (though the Siouxie spot didn't happen because of Hurricane Sandy), netted an upcoming six-track EP. "Israel," a cover of the 1980 track, is fairly faithful: a touch more smoke, a touch less propulsion, Plapinger's vocals more apt to sit atop the mix than cut through it. It's a timely choice of aesthetic and an equally timely, if oblique, choice of cover given current events ("In Israel, will they sing happy Noel?").